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From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: need help on unix
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.084941.12992@prl.dec.com>
Date: 11 Jun 91 08:49:41 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.005942.22241@unixg.ubc.ca>, wangf@unixg.ubc.ca (Frank Wang) writes:
> Is that possible to delete some lines from a file (the file is so large that  
> it's impossible to use any editor) without evoking any editors?

Eh?  Why not just use sed(1)?  Or, at a pinch, grep(1).


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

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